{"id":92964,"date":"2026-08-16T06:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92964"},"modified":"2026-08-16T06:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:26:42","slug":"cheap-travel-is-not-a-defence-the-parents-facing-court-for-school-absences-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/16\/cheap-travel-is-not-a-defence-the-parents-facing-court-for-school-absences-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cheap travel is not a defence\u2019: The parents facing court for school absences in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23054\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/plane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the long school summer break approached its mid-point recently, Margate beach was crowded with families enjoying the brief reprieve between the year\u2019s fourth and fifth heatwaves.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/cheap-travel-is-not-a-defence-the-parents-facing-court-for-school-absences-in-england\/ar-AA2abb5g?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=ce7dcdd984644787930fb90905c589eb&ei=39\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 As the long school summer break approached its mid-point recently, Margate beach was crowded with families enjoying the brief reprieve between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Airport-Departure.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92965,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92964\/revisions\/92965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}